Establishing the Maryland Metro Dedicated Fund Account in the Transportation Trust Fund; requiring the Governor to withhold or reduce a certain appropriation if the Commonwealth of Virginia or the District of Columbia reduce their amount of dedicated...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing the State Board of Dental Examiners to issue a cease and desist order for certain violations; establishing penalties for a person who aids or abets a person who practices or attempts to practice dentistry without a license; altering certa...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Establishing the James Proctor Scholarship Program at historically black colleges and universities; requiring each historically black college or university to apply funding from the Program to the tuition and fees of an enrolled student who is a resi...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a certain disabled person to apply for voluntary admission to a mental facility if the person submits a formal written application and either a physician and a psychologist, two physicians, or a physician and a psychiatric nurse practione...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Maryland Health Care Commission, in consultation with the Office of Minority Health and Health Disparities, the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, the Vital Statistics Administration, and interested stakeholders, to conduct a study on th...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing money and assets in an ABLE account to be transferred, on the death of a designated beneficiary, to a certain estate or a certain ABLE account for an eligible individual, unless prohibited by federal law; and prohibiting the State, unless...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Secretary of General Services, the Secretary of Transportation, the Chancellor of the University System of Maryland, and the President of Morgan State University to adopt regulations to require the qualification of a business as a small...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the State Department of Assessments and Taxation to identify homeowners who may be eligible but have failed to apply for the homestead property tax credit; and requiring the Department to include a separate insert with each assessment notic...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the definition of "licensed health care practitioner" for the purposes of certain provisions of law governing vital statistics and records to include a registered nurse certified as a certified nurse midwife under Title 8 of the Health Occup...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Specifying that the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland may sell or exchange any part of its real properties with the approval of the Board of Public Works; and altering the requirement for approval by the Board of Public Works for ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a custodian of records for the Motor Vehicle Administration to disclose certain personal information to United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement only after being provided with a valid warrant or subpoena issued by a federal court...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Secretary of Health to establish a Sepsis Public Awareness Campaign Workgroup; providing for the membership of the Workgroup; requiring the Workgroup to develop a certain public awareness campaign, identify, review, and evaluate certain...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a life insurer to refuse an application for a policy of life insurance on the life of a minor only under certain circumstances; requiring an application for a policy of life insurance on the life of a minor to include a certain consent an...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Repealing a provision that prohibits the Governor from appointing a member of the Board of Regents of the University System of Maryland, the Board of Directors of the Medical System Corporation, or an officer or a full-time employee of the Medical Sy...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring a general hospice care program, when providing services in an in-home setting, to establish a written unused prescription medication collection and disposal policy that includes certain provisions; requiring an employee of a general hospice...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Exempting a high-deductible health plan from the prohibition on application of a deductible to coverage for male sterilization; requiring the Maryland Insurance Commissioner to forward a certain notice of determination within 5 days of receiving the ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a public body to meet in a closed session to discuss cybersecurity if the public body determines that public discussion would constitute a risk to security assessments or deployments relating to information resources technology, certain n...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering a certain limit on the unified credit used for determining the Maryland estate tax for certain decedents; altering a certain limitation on the amount of the Maryland estate tax for decedents dying on or after January 1, 2019; providing that,...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the State, a county, or a bicounty agency to provide to a municipality certain notification at least 24 hours before the State, county, or bicounty agency sprays a pesticide to control mosquitos within the municipality; and providing a cert...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the determination of the number of exemptions that an individual may use to calculate a certain deduction under the Maryland income tax; requiring the Bureau of Revenue Estimates, in consultation with the Consensus Revenue Monitoring and For...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Providing that, in a prosecution for certain sexual offenses, evidence that the defendant committed sexually assaultive behavior at a certain time may be admissible for certain reasons; requiring that the State file a motion of intent to introduce ev...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Increasing the penalties for voluntarily causing physical injury to bus, train, or light rail operators, or other individuals providing public transportation services; and providing that a person who violates the Act is guilty of felony assault in th...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Repealing the requirement that the State Board of Education adopt and publish standards for the administration of a subsidized feeding program; requiring the State to be responsible for the student share of the costs of breakfasts and lunches provide...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing, for purposes of filing a petition for U Nonimmigrant Status, a victim or victim's family member to request a certifying official to certify victim helpfulness on a Form I-918, Supplement B certification; providing that, for the purpose o...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Establishing the Complete Streets Program; specifying the purpose and goals of the Program; requiring the Governor to annually appropriate at least $1,000,000 in funding for the Program; specifying the requirements for a local government to be design...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring an employer to provide the pay scale for a position to an applicant for employment on request; prohibiting employers from relying on wage history information, except under certain circumstances, for certain purposes and seeking the wage his...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a certain sanction for a certain inmate who has been found guilty of a certain administrative infraction; authorizing a certain sanction for a certain inmate who has been found guilty of a certain substantive infraction; restricting to 15...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to provide certain Basic Health Program coverage in the State; requiring the Maryland Department of Health to report to the Department of Legislative Services and the General Assembly on or before June 1, 2...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

2018-03-19Unfavorable Report by Health and Government Operations; Withdrawn

Prohibiting a person from driving a motor vehicle in a dedicated bus lane unless authorized by a certain local jurisdiction, subject to certain exceptions; prohibiting the use of a bus lane monitoring camera in a local jurisdiction unless authorized ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the calculation of the Maryland earned income tax credit to allow certain individuals without qualifying children to claim an increased credit; expanding eligibility of the credit to allow certain individuals without certain qualifying child...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Establishing the Behavioral Health Crisis Response Grant Program to provide funds to local jurisdictions to establish and expand community behavioral health crisis response systems; authorizing certain uses of funds distributed under the Program; req...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring each county board of education to report to the Maryland Department of Health the number of students who did not receive recommended services after failing a hearing or vision screening and the reason certain students did not receive certai...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to make a certain advance payment to a nursing home at the request of the nursing home for uncompensated Maryland Medical Assistance Program services provided to a certain resident; providing that the advan...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Director of the Behavioral Health Administration to prepare a certain annual report on behavioral health services for children and young adults in the State; requiring the Social Services Administration within the Department of Human Se...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the eligibility requirements for an individual to be certified by the Maryland Police Training and Standards Commission as a police officer to require an individual to be either a United States citizen or a permanent legal resident of the Un...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing, with a certain exception, a pharmacist to dispense, in a single dispensing and exercising the pharmacist's professional judgment, a quantity of a prescription drug that is up to a certain number of authorized dosage units and does not ex...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Authorizing a court to include in an order appointing a guardian of the person of a disabled person the duty to foster and preserve certain family relationships under certain circumstances; establishing the intent of the General Assembly to enforce t...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring an authorized provider to submit certain evidence to the Maryland Department of Health that the authorized provider completed two credits of continuing medical education before the authorized provider may be registered by the Department to ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Establishing the Task Force to Standardize Data Collection on Race and Ethnicity; providing for the composition, chair, and staffing of the Task Force; prohibiting a member of the Task Force from receiving certain compensation, but authorizing the re...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering, from a 6-month to a 12-month period, the length for which a certain insurer, nonprofit health service plan, and health maintenance organization is required to provide coverage for a single dispensing of a supply of prescription contraceptiv...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the definition of "qualifying nonprofit organization" to authorize certain nonprofit organizations to qualify for participation in the State Employee and Retiree Health and Welfare Benefits Program; authorizing an employee of a county board ...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring a county board of education and a certain contracting agency to require an applicant for a position involving direct contact with minors to provide certain information; requiring the county board or contracting agency to conduct a certain r...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the definition of "food service facility" to exempt from licensure by the Maryland Department of Health a kitchen in a private home where food is prepared at no charge for sale or service at a religious or charitable organization's temporary...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the application fee for a pharmacy benefits manager to register with the Maryland Insurance Commissioner; prohibiting a pharmacy benefits manager from prohibiting a pharmacy or pharmacist from providing a beneficiary with certain information...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Requiring the Maryland Department of Health to apply to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a certain State plan amendment to the Family Planning Program; altering the length of the period for which the Maryland Medical Assistance Prog...[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Altering the definition of "cottage food product" to include certain food sold in the State directly to a consumer from a residence, by personal delivery, or by mail delivery in accordance with certain provisions of law.[Detail][Text][Discuss]

Prohibiting a pharmacy benefits manager from prohibiting a pharmacy or pharmacist from providing a beneficiary with certain information regarding the retail price of a prescription drug or the amount of the cost share for a prescription drug for whic...[Detail][Text][Discuss]